Who Created God?

Let me prefix this post with this...

I was raised Christian, and I believe in being a good person, do no harm to others or yourself etc... However I do not believe Christianity is real, I do not believe that the bible speaks truth outside of the 10 commandments which I think are good guidelines to live a nice life, outside of that it's all baloney.

I believe there is a higher power of some sort, there has to be, but none of the religions on earth have it correct. I think if you live a good life whatever higher power judged you in the end will do so on your actions in life, not what silly nonsense you believed in.

Now to the point!

[link to www.godandscience.org]

Read that article, and then comeback. This is dudes explanation for how God has always existed...

spacetime - the dimension we live in, where space and time are inseparable. So when the Universe was created by whomever, space and time were created together, and before that no space and no time existed.

eternity - being outside of time, basically a dimension or realm where time does not exist, where such a being like god exists.

cause and effect - spacetime is a dimension of ordered events, and time is the measurement, or ordering of those events in the order in which they happen.

In our universe, every effect has a cause, and because a cause must come before an effect, that means there has to be some "time" between the cause and effect.

So basically dudes point is since god lives in eternity, where time is not present, he could not have been caused, he could not have been created, only existed, because without time there is no "before" and thus no cause, just pure existence.

Then he states the reason "why" god created the universe. He says he wanted to share eternity with other beings, but didn't want to force them he wanted them to make up their own minds.

So at first glance that all sounds reasonable until you think of it this way.

If in eternity there is no "before" then there is also no "after" which means if god has always existed then the universe has always existed and we have always existed! It is non sensical to ask the question "what was god doing before he created us" because there is no time so there is no "before", and thus there is no "after".

Which basically means that the unverse, god, and us have always existed, and at the same time we don't exist now either, because since there is no "after" that means the universe is concurrently in all possible states it could possible be in, just created, 1million years ago, present time, 2030, 2640, and it has vanished, and all possible events have taken place already.

Basically it means that everything that will happen, has already happened, and it has not yet happened at the same time!

There is no free will because everything has already happened, so when god created the universe he created our decisions on weather or not be with him, so what's the point of him making the Universe?

Think people, the simplest answer is usually the correct answer, so why make a universe for no reason? doesn't seem simple to me.

Anyways, how about some Christians come and explain their viewpoint to me?